From the "it's time to put on big boy pants" department - L-E headline/story: "Only 2 Columbus students walked out for national protest. Here's what others did instead. * The girls said they knew there could be consequences for their actions but were not concerned." -- Well, well, well.. "the two knew there "could be consequences but were nor=t concerned"? Well, it's time the MCSD/MCSB makes sure the consequences fit the edict that such actions would not be tolerated. IF the MCSD and MCSB don't, all discipline and respect of such will be lost. Of course, the L-E was pretty pathetic in itself.. seriously... 3 reporters and a photographer at one school? Sounds like it was some sort of pre-planned demonstration... perhaps even manipulated by the L-E...

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Soapbox Moment: L-E story: "The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles declined to stay condemned ‘Stocking Strangler’ Carlton Gary’s execution or commute his death sentence Wednesday, the day before he’s to die by lethal injection." --
I remember during the reign of terror Carlton Gary created over Columbus that a "victim profile" was issued by the CPD.. the "victims" were basically "white single women in their 60s, living alone" My aunt lived in the center of the main area.. she was a 61 year old white single woman living alone. She was scared to death.. enough so she moved out of her family home..a week or so later, we discovered that someone had broken into her home via the second story . We had already put in an alarm system on the first floor, but someone (no prints were found) scaled a brick wall to access the garage roof, then entered through a 2nd floor window. She would not move back into her home after the terror stopped.. she would be 102 if she was still alive today; in fact all the women assaulted/killed would be over 100 today as Carlton Gary breathes his last. Tragically, only one child of all the victims is still alive this day.. I hope he has been invited to not only attend the execution, but to throw the switch that starts the process.. it wouldn't offend me if a few of the lawyers that have soaked the public protecting this (_@_) were included as well.

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Did I hear right....that there's a proposal in front of Columbus Council to make an extended viewing station off of the planned River Walk extension at Mott Terrace at TSYS to overlook the rafting course? Excuse me, but we already have the Walking Bridge that already offers great viewing of the rafting, so would another station, with a lesser view at additional costs be just more wasteful spending?

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Online headline: "Hillary Clinton criticized by fellow Dems for trashing female Trump voters" -- Wow.. it's amazing what desperate DIMocrats hear when they stop drinking the Clinton's Kool-Aid..

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Oh! Did you see the video of Hellary stumbling down the steps in India? All I could think of was "Humpty Dumpty had a great fall"....

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You know, if Hellary..even Obama.. had campaigned on the issues like Conor Lamb did in Pennsylvania , I might have voted for them. Of course, neither would have gotten the DNC's nomination running on the Trump agenda rather than Pelosi's, so my premise is moot.

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Did you hear it yesterday, the sound of silence Simon and Garfunkel wrote about? A lot teens held silent cellphones for 17 minutes.

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I just discovered that there's a new "Paint Ball" facility in Columbus.. What a great lesson it conveys... having fun aiming a gun at friends/people and shooting them.. and we wonder where teens learn to initiate drive-by and school shootings...

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From "the worm has turned" department - Online headline/story: "Nation of Islam lashes out at 3 black members of Congress, calling them sellouts for denouncing Farrakhan * In an open letter on the group's website, Representatives Gregory Meeks, Barbara Lee and Danny Davis, who have disavowed Farrakhan's anti-Semitic and racist rhetoric, are accused of being sellouts to Farrakhan's critics -- derided as "Satanic Jews" -- and the Nation of Islam leader is compared to Jesus Christ. * “Remember, it was the same Satanic Jews of yesterday that conspired against Jesus and had him killed by the ruling authority of the Roman Empire," the letter reads. "They hated Jesus because he told the truth. Jesus was ridiculed, falsely charged, lied on, evil spoken of and called a hater and a bigot.” -- Hmmm ... and next, Farrakhan will call the "racist alt-rights"...but excuse me, but shouldn't Iran's Ayatollah be issuing a "death edict" for Farrakhan's support of Jesus?

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From the "life as it should be" - Online headline/story: "Sessions may fire top FBI official Andrew McCabe before pension eligibility * The FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility has recommended the firing of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who remains on the payroll — a move that could put his pension at risk, according to officials familiar with the process." -- Good grief.. any one holding any job in government involving the security of America who gets fired for cause should not get a lifetime taxpayer funded pension.. and it's not just McCabe I'm thinking of, but what Lois Lerner .. the IRS gal that denied 501-(c)-3 permits for conservative groups,, she abused her office to the detriment of American citizens as well.

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From the "make sure Columbus Council sees this" department - Online headline/story: "Ohio town must pay back millions of fines collected from speed cameras, court rules * A small Ohio town that lived by the red light camera could soon die by it, after a federal court ruled the speed trap has to pay back more than $3 million in automated speeding tickets. * “The village enacted this unconstitutional scheme primarily as a money making venture,” Josh Engel, the lawyer representing the plaintiffs in the New Miami case, told Fox News. * Bill Seitz, a Republican state representative from Ohio, told Fox News. “But many of these jurisdictions are using these tickets as revenue enhancements that ticket people for only minor infractions.” * Seitz is currently working to push a bill through the Ohio statehouse that would require cities to file all traffic camera cases in municipal court and would reduce state funding to cities by the same amount cities collect in traffic camera revenue." -- Now that's a Republican representative.. of course, ours have a tendency to want to raise our property taxes.. Hey, Pezold.. ya' listening?

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Just remembering at how the CWW spent our money on the RiverCenter "Viagra Falls" sculpture, the CWW should make a better effort at BEING a good neighbor..
One of the ways could be keeping up with the amount of water we're billed for. Many bills are for set minimum usage (you pay a certain amount whether you use that much or not in a given month). How about the CWW keep a rolling record of the amounts we pay for that we didn't use, and give us that back in credits when the summer months get here and we start watering our lawns (which don't use the sewage system which is based on how much water goes through the meter).

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From the "mainscream media will fault Trump even when a makes a clarification statement" department - Online headline/story: ":Trump admits to making up information in meeting with Trudeau * During a fundraising speech in Missouri, Trump recalled contradicting Trudeau, who told him Canada didn’t have a trade deficit with the U.S. — even though he had “no idea” whether that was true. * “I said, ‘You’re wrong, Justin.’ He said, ‘Nope, we have no trade deficit.’ I said, ‘Well, in that case, I feel differently,’ I said, ‘but I don’t believe it.’ I sent one of our guys out, his guy, my guy, they went out, I said, ‘Check, because I can’t believe it,'" Trump said. * ‘Well, sir, you’re actually right. We have no deficit, but that doesn’t include energy and timber. … And when you do, we lose $17 billion a year.’ It’s incredible,” Trump went on to say." -- Good grief.. whether it's technically "considered" a trade deficit or not.. being on the short end of a money exchange IS a trade deficit.. Of course, the WaPo still believes Hellary never lies... and hers are intentional and never corrected.

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You know, Katy Perry once had a event here in Columbus.. she was a lead-in singer at Columbus' own Bebo Norman Christian Concert..Here is how she looked before her "transition" to the other side..

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L-E headline/story: "COLUMBUS * Council approves $500,000 to fix leaky swimming pools * City Manager Isaiah Hugley said the Parks and Recreation Department doesn’t have a funding source for the repairs. So he would look at the Parks and Rec budget to see if a portion of the money could come through salary savings. If not, the $500,000 would have to come out of the city’s fund balance." -- Pools will be Mayor Tom-LYING-son's true legacy... like all other ideas she she initiated to drain our fund balance.. they don't hold water either.